Just Sitting

I was just sitting at my Farmer's Market table watching the traffic go by hoping that the rain would hold off until I got home.

It was looking like a good strong rain was approaching.

The other three sellers left around 11 or so but I wanted to stay until noon.

To entertain myself I was taking pictures with my Ipod.

Here is the view of the very edge of downtown Waseca as seen from my table.

Not much of a view but I am very fond of it.

My table.

As you see it did not change much from last week.

My mini rhubarb, banana, chocolate chip breads.

I had extra rhubarb batter and extra banana chocolate chip batter so I mixed them together!

They do not look as appealing after a few hours in the sun,do they?

My big loaves of bread.

It drives me nuts how the bread bags fog up like that.

The jars Josh painted.

They are very pretty.

Looking forward to next Saturday!

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Random

Starting my morning baking for the farmer's market tomorrow.

Ah, rhubarb chopping.

Some good music.

a few mini loaves hot out of the oven

More mini loaves ready to go for tomorrow

Let's see...rhubarb bread, rhubarb with banana and chocolate chips, banana bread, banana with walnuts, chocolate chip banana. Still in the oven is lemon poppy seed bread.

and the dresses I completed this evening.

I am pretty tired tonight.

Parenting is so hard and I am not very good at it.

I really do not like being the 'bad guy'. Ha Ha. Who watched Survivor this past season? I am the Enforcer. I would gladly give that title to someone else (Hint. Hint.) but there are no takers.

Could I at least have a shield bearer...

This day does not seem like a 'shake it off' kind of day.

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Farmer's Market

Today was my first day at the farmer's market!

It was a fun day.

Things do not pick up until later in the summer season but these first few weeks when it is quieter helps me gain a little confidence and work out the kinks in my farmer's marker day preparations and table set up.

I am looking forward to this summer season!!



Thank you to all who stopped by to say hello and help get Grant to Ghana!

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Farmer's Market Count Down

I did indeed sleep in today.

This coming Saturday is the start of Waseca's Farmer's Market!

I did not think I would be back out there selling this year but to Ghana Grant is going so I will happily do my part.

Last year I was the only booth out this early in the year and felt a little silly but I will be out there again this year.

SO as you are driving around town Saturday morning

and you see that lady pulling her green wagon with what looking like her household belongings down main street...

perhaps talking to herself,

It's just me.

No need to worry.

I did a little experiment to see if making little cakes would be a good Farmer's Market thing to sell.

These are white chocolate orange mini cakes. The kids liked them. I might try to make them look fancier.

Gee.

I have absolutely no baking imagination.

~SIGH~



LOVE this picture!



Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Ghana Go To Africa!!

Our son Grant will be heading back to Ghana, West Africa in the fall for 6 weeks!!

If you might recall, Grant went to Ghana for about 2 weeks last year with a mission team from Christ Community Church and coordinated by ASON International.

This year Grant has the opportunity to travel to Ghana for six weeks to help build a guest house and a septic field as well work with Ghanaian youth. This is a wonderfully, exciting opportunity for him.

We are thinking of ways to fund raise the approximately $5,500 dollars Grant will need for his trip.

That is a good chunk of change.

One idea we had was to sell t-shirts.

These are our prototypes.

What do you think?

















I am still in the tweaking stage but what do you think?

Is a hand-painted t-shirt something people would want to purchase for a fundraiser?

Or are they cheap and cheesy looking?

I would like whoever would buy one to not be embarrassed to wear it in public.

I know that there are on-line sites that actually print the t-shirt design but hand-made is much more fun if it is done right and we would save a few dollars doing the design ourselves.

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Hmm...

Just wait...

There is a plan...

Just wait and see...





Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

To Ghana He Is Going!!

I thought those of you who are interested in Grant's trip to Ghana would enjoy this video.

It is very exciting that Grant will be a part of all this in just over a month!!

Thank you

to all who are praying and supporting him and the rest of the mission team!!!





Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mom

Grant's Ghana Fundraising Update

I would like to thank everyone who has stopped by my farmer's market table to say hello and to help raise money for Grant's Ghana trip.

As well as everyone who has responded to Grant's Ghana fundraising letter!!!!

He is getting closer!

I think he has about $1,100 left to raise out of the original $3,700 amount.

Not bad at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you would like to help with Grant's trip I included a donation button. This is my regular Paypal account and the donations would be non tax deductible but I promise it all will go to Grant's trip. If you would like to donate directly to ASON on Grant's behalf instead of Paypal leave me a comment with your email address and I will send you the info. Either way THANK YOU!!!!

Back to the farmer's market fundraiser!

I have five or six more Saturdays before Farmer's Market season comes to an end.

I have only missed two Saturdays since the beginning of June and I walked up with my wagon every time!!

The wagon only flipped twice.

I was stared at a few more times than that,though...

I think I was pointed at...

And pretty sure I was laughed at.

Could not be sure on the last one because I was 'burning wagon rubber' down the street.

Laughs and car noise kind of sound the same in this mom's early morning mental fog.

Anyway!

Pretty impressive for not being fond of early mornings or good at baking.

I usually make 18 loaves of various breads in the zucchini, banana, apple, and pumpkin variety.

I usually have one or two extra loaves that I do not sell. One Saturday I sold all 18 and I was very excited!

The breads that go first are usually my 'hybred' breads. Those are the breads with banana, chocolate chips, and blueberries (yes! All three in one loaf!! Yum!!) or apple (or zucchini) bread with pineapple and coconut. A close second is anything with chocolate chips in it, third would be banana or zucchini with walnuts.

I find the men who buy my bread lean towards the non traditional combinations. Women seem to stick with more traditional breads. But of course, there are always exceptions!

I have my bread baking down pretty well. It takes between 3 to 4 hours to make 18 loaves. If I am not distracted.

I also have been selling some of my sewing items at my table to help Grant along on his fundraising.

Here is a peek at a few things that sold so far.

I hope to start making a few princess Halloween dresses to bring to the farmer's market to sell on Saturday. If I get them finished I will let you have the first peek!


Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mom

A Very Nice Thursday

We have yet to make a special trash pickup for our broken baby pool. The kids thought that it still had a few hot days left in it so out from the garbage it came. It worked great as long as everyone just stood in it.



Although I had my Etsy shop since last fall I had yet to buy anything. I did make a trade and Catay's Creations gave me complementary jam. But I finally jumped in and made my first Etsy purchase and it came today in the mail. I am very pleased.

I bought this necklace from J Studio .Isn't it very pretty! She has a lot more beautiful pendent necklaces in her shop.

J Studio is raising money for Kolfe Orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia so all her profits from J Studio goes to help the orphanage. Since I have some dear friends who adopted from Ethiopia (although from a different orphanage) and us adopting from Africa, I thought it was very nice to help Kolfe Orphanage and get a very pretty necklace too!